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No. 13 Women's Swimming Wraps Second Day At Pac-10 Championships

FEDERAL WAY, Wash. -- Juniors Sarah Baham and Riley Mants earned fourth-place finishes in their respective events, as the 13th-ranked Arizona State women's swimming team completed the second day of the Pac-10 Championships at the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way, Wash., Friday.

Baham, the ASU record-holder in the 100 and 200-yard buttterfly, took fourth in the 100y fly in 54.93, while Mants secured her fourth-place finish in the 100y breastroke in a season-best 1:02.77. Both Sun Devil efforts were NCAA `B' qualifying times, two of the nine such times the Sun Devils posted during Friday's event finals.

Another of those `B' standards came in the 200y medley relay, where Miranda Shald, Mants, Baham and Claire Hedenskog combined for a season-best 1:42.16 to finish fifth.

Freshman Brooke Townsend continued her impressive Pac-10 swing with an ASU season-best 1:50.14 to claim ninth (first in the `B' final) in the 200y free. Teammate Amanda Stanford was right behind in 1:50.91, to claim 14th.

With 14 events completed, it appears as if ASU will finish in sixth-place for the fifth consecutive time. With a two-day total of 483.5, ASU is well behind fifth-place California's 642.5, but well-ahead of seventh-place WSU's 289 team points.

In conjunction with the women's swimming championships, the men's and women's conference diving championships also completed the second day of competition. ASU's Marc Briggs, fresh off a school record Thursday, placed third in the 1-meter dive with 354.75 points. The Sun Devils' Gordon Blukis advanced to the finals to finish seventh with a score of 291.05.

On the women's diving end of things, only Natalie Burgess advanced to finals of the 3-meter. Burgess captured eighth-place with a total score of 453.40.